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CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Vor. III. 
12. Lonicera Xylésteum L. Fly-Honey- 
suckle. Fig. 3990. 
Lonicera Xylosteum L. Sp. Pl. 174. 1753. 
A shrub, 3°-7° high, the foliage densely ap- 
pressed-pubescent when young. Leaves ovate, 
oval, or obovate, entire, short-petioled, rather 
pale green, obtuse, or the upper acute at the 
apex, obtuse, subcordate or narrowed at the base, 
glabrous above when mature, persistently pubes- 
cent beneath, 1’-3’ long; petioles 2’-4” long; 
peduncles axillary, 2-flowered, 4’-8” long, about 
as long as the flowers, or longer; flowers yellow- 
ish white; bracts linear-subulate; berries scarlet. 
Escaped from cultivation, Rhode Island, New 
York and New Jersey. Native of Europe and Asia. 
May-June. : 
13. Lonicera tatarica L. Tartarian 
Bush-Honeysuckle. Fig. 3991. 
Lonicera tatarica L. Sp. Pl. 173. 1753. 
A glabrous shrub, 5°-10° high. Leaves 
ovate, rather thin, not conspicuously reticulate- 
veined, 1’-3’ long, acute or obtusish at the apex, 
cordate at the base, not ciliate; flowers in 
pairs on slender axillary peduncles; corolla 
pink to white, 7”-8” long, the tube gibbous at 
the base, the limb irregularly and deeply 
5-lobed, somewhat 2-lipped; peduncles 1’ long; 
bracts linear, sometimes as long as the corolla- 
tube; stamens and style scarcely exserted; 
berries separate, red. 
Escaped from cultivation, Ontario, Maine and 
Vermont to southern New York, New Jersey and 
Kentucky. May. Native of Asia. Garden fly- 
honeysuckle. 
14. Lonicera involucrata (Richards. ) 
Banks. Involucred Fly-Honeysuckle. 
Fig. 3992. 
Xylosieum involucratum Richards. App. Frank. 
Journ. Ed. 2, 6. 1823. 
Lonicera involucrata Banks; Richards. loc. cit. 
1823. 
Distegia involucrata Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 33: 
152. 1906. 
A glabrate or pubescent shrub, 3°-10° high. 
Leaves short-petioled, ovate, oval, or obovate, 
2’-6’ long, acute or acuminate at the apex, 
narrowed or rounded at the base, more or less 
pubescent, at least when young; peduncles axil- 
lary, 1-2’ long, 2-3-flowered; bracts foliaceous, 
ovate or oval, often cordate; bractlets also 
large, at length surrounding the fruit; flowers 
yellow; corolla pubescent, funnelform, the 
limb nearly equally 5-lobed; lobes short, little 
spreading; stamens and style slightly exserted; 
berries separate, globose, or oval, nearly black, 
about 4” in diameter. 
In woodlands, New Brunswick and Quebec to western Ontario and Michigan, west to British 
Columbia and Alaska, south to Arizona, Utah and California. June-July. 
